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Now, I have a question for you, my high-school chum: If almost all the jobs related to manufacturing are nearly wiped-out as a profession in America; and if we are offshoring (and thusly not doing) accounting, engineering, software, call-center work, reading and interpreting medical data, financial planning, and soon enough medical doctor and lawyering work; and if immigrants are doing transportation, agriculture, and the remaining other low-tech work; and if robotics will be completely eliminating 90% of retail sales jobs with RFID technology and self-checkout lanes.....

.....what will we be doing?

The most successful will be managing those businesses and be trying to find new and better things from the opprotunities that spring up and not lamenting their so-called salad days of going into work 9-5 at a desk job. Look I lived through this type of thing before when I was teen in the Pittsburgh area in the late 70's and early 80's when the steel mills shut down. The whiniest mill workers were all lamenting how the "Japs" had taken away their good paying jobs and how that they couldn't pilfer tools from the mill and make 30g pushing a broom, others moved on and prospered.

The area survived, because people found new opportunities, even with the incessant moaning of those who wistfully wished for a time that has passed.

This has happened all through recent human history. Maybe you should do a google search of the British Luddite movement.

The most successful will be managing those businesses and be trying to find new and better things from the opprotunities that spring up

Okay, you've accounted for about 2% of the workforce.

What about the other 98%?

You seem to think America can be a nation of CEO's.

Look I lived through this type of thing before when I was teen in the Pittsburgh area in the late 70's and early 80's when the steel mills shut down.

Leaving aside for a second that I simply do not believe you were alive in the 1970's and early 1980's, this differs greatly from the loss of blue collar jobs then. See, at that time we were told that we'd be able to get white collar jobs, even the lesser-skilled people.

Now there is nothing to fall back upon, except maybe pink collar jobs, since we will not be able to afford shirts.

Manufacturing jobs are sent out of the country.

White collar jobs are now being sent out of the country.

Construction jobs are taken over by illegals who send thier paychecks out of country.

The only jobs left here are minimum wage. At minimum wage the people can't afford to purchace the products no longer made here. So the Corps will go out of business. What then?